Author: Lionel Decle
Title: Three Years in Savage Africa
Description: London, Methuen & Co, 1898 . Cloth. The illustrated second edition of John Decle's account of his three year journey from Cape Town to Mombasa. The second edition of this work, published in the same year as the first. John Decle's account of his three years of travel through Southern and Eastern Africa, and his seven thousand mile journey between Cape Town and Mombasa, provides a fascinating portrait of Africa through the eyes of an Englishman in the latter part of the nineteenth century.Illustrated with five plates of maps, two folding, a number of further vignette illustrations, and a frontispiece, all the work of Decle himself. Collated, complete.With the inscription of J. H. Lowler to a front endpaper and the half title, and Philip L. Jenkins also to a front endpaper. In the original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip tail, with significant fading to back strip tail and rear board. Front hinge starting, with board holding firm. Inscriptions to front blank and half title. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, with the odd mark throughout. Good . Ill.: Lionel Decle. Good .
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Title: Three Years in Savage Africa
Description: London, Methuen & Co, 1898 . Cloth. The illustrated second edition of John Decle's account of his three year journey from Cape Town to Mombasa. The second edition of this work, published in the same year as the first. John Decle's account of his three years of travel through Southern and Eastern Africa, and his seven thousand mile journey between Cape Town and Mombasa, provides a fascinating portrait of Africa through the eyes of an Englishman in the latter part of the nineteenth century.Illustrated with five plates of maps, two folding, a number of further vignette illustrations, and a frontispiece, all the work of Decle himself. Collated, complete.With the inscription of J. H. Lowler to a front endpaper and the half title, and Philip L. Jenkins also to a front endpaper. In the original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip tail, with significant fading to back strip tail and rear board. Front hinge starting, with board holding firm. Inscriptions to front blank and half title. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, with the odd mark throughout. Good . Ill.: Lionel Decle. Good .
Keywords: Three Years in Savage Africa east africa lionel decle east africa Lionel Decle
Price: GBP 180.00 = appr. US$ 257.04 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 832F14
- Book number: 832F14
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